The
original meeting house in Broad Street (now the High Street) was
demolished around 1900. Below is an excerpt from the early minutes.

'The
word shall count when he writeth up the people,
that this man was born there.' Thus opens the Baptismal
Register of the Present Body of Congregationalists
on the 15th November 1804. Their minute book opens
only a little earlier with the words, 'Considering
ourselves formed into a Church of Christ'. For
some months until the Rev. John Innes was formally
inducted they had no resident minister. A
Mr Cobbin who was occupying their pulpit in 1810
was sufficiently fluent in French to address a congregation
of 5,000 prisoners of war at Princetown, and, it
may be supposed was in much request by the French
officers on parole in Kirton. The Vicar answering
No: 2 of Bishop Carey's queries in 1821 made no
separate mention of Independents or Presbyterians,
they were just Calvinists as distinct from Unitarians,
Anabaptists or Wesleyans. There were he said, too,
no 'Papists' in the Parish. Among members buried
in the Chapel Graveyard were...John Mann (2), Thomas
Heathman, Captain Flood, Master Mariner, and Bradley
Amerideth aged 91 and of a family of some importance
in earlier times. Other members of the Congregation
were Thomas Rudall, Attorney, who died in 1875 aged
95, and his wife who died in 1883, aged 94; but
both buried in the family vault in the Churchyard,
presumably with the Rev: John, the Naval Chaplain,
whose nephew Thomas Rudall was.